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School principal and author Ryan Martin says parents should approach teachers with curosity.

What teachers wish the parents of ‘problem children’ knew

Teachers and parents can see different versions of the same child. Here’s how to communicate effectively.

  • Kimberly Gillan

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Education Minister Ben Carroll is going to take stronger measures to ban parents who threaten their children’s teachers.

Toxic parents can be banned from schools for WhatsApp posts

Parents targeting teachers or principals in WhatsApp groups would be forced to take their posts down under an enhanced scheme to protect educators.

  • Caroline Schelle
Victorian Institute of Teaching chief executive Martin Fletcher wants a reimagined teaching register.

Teaching watchdog pushes for medical-style transparency on teacher misconduct

The Victorian Institute of Teaching chief wants greater transparency on the register of educators, but a parents’ group says proceed with caution.

  • Noel Towell
A fresh battle is looming over the nation’s approach to educating its children.

The reading wars are over. The learning wars are just beginning

Rebel educators have issued a call to arms against “one-size-fits-all nonsense” of explicit learning in the nation’s classrooms.

  • Noel Towell
The state government is being criticised for its schools funding.

School workers say flat no to teacher pay deal

Hundreds of education support workers have rejected the state government pay offer, while school nurses are also seeking a better deal.

  • Noel Towell
New Zealand teachers are helping fill the gaps in Victorian schools as homegrown teachers flock to jobs interstate.

As Victorian teachers flock interstate, Kiwis are filling the education gap

As state-educated teachers undertake a mass exodus interstate, a flood of New Zealand educators is cushioning the blow.

  • Grant McArthur and Noel Towell
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Teachers with the AEU strike in March.

Teachers have been offered a pay rise of up to 32%. I’m turning it down

The claim by Premier Jacinta Allan that this agreement will make our workforce “the best-paid teachers in Australia” requires closer scrutiny.

  • Jessica McGinnis
Port Melbourne Primary School prep students Brooklyn, Chloe, Felix and Gonzalo use an explicit instruction approach to learning to read with principal Tom Cain.

This style of teaching gets results, say governments. But resistance to it is growing

The state government says its evidence-based reforms to classroom teaching are a winner, but critics are getting more vocal and organised.

  • Noel Towell
Yeronga State High School saw the equivalent of 16 new teachers join the school between 2024 and 2025.

The high-growth corridors where state schools are hiring more teachers revealed

Almost half of teachers newly employed by the Queensland government in 2025 were funnelled into schools categorised under one departmental region.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
An expert wants to banish the A’s, B’s and C’s.

Failing grades: Why this expert wants to banish the A’s, B’s and C’s

Grading schoolchildren with A’s, B’s and C’s is an outdated concept and needs to go, says a leading international schools expert.

  • Noel Towell